Why this ride
226 km from Tel Aviv to Tel Aviv, about 4 h 00 of riding. The stops in between: Sebastia, Tel Megiddo and back through Sebastia. It crosses from Israel into Palestinian Territories - carry ID and check the toll rules.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme and Tel Megiddo
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 226 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 00
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme
White walls, rounded balconies, ribbon windows and flat roofs: walking through central Tel Aviv you are surrounded by one of the largest collections of buildings in the International Style anywhere in the world. Several thousand were built in the 1930s and 1940s, many by architects who had trained in Europe, some at the Bauhaus, and who adapted the modernist ideas to the Mediterranean climate with balconies for shade and raised ground floors for air. The White City, as it is called, became a World Heritage Site in 2003. The plan of the city itself was drawn up by the Scottish urbanist Patrick Geddes in the 1920s, with tree lined boulevards and green squares.
Read the complete White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme is where the day begins. Next is Sebastia.
2. Sebastia
Sebastia, Sabastiya in Arabic, is a Palestinian village on a hill north-west of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, surrounded by olive groves and terraced hillsides. It stands on the site of Samaria, the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel in the ninth and eighth centuries BC, later rebuilt by Herod the Great, who named it Sebaste in honour of the Emperor Augustus. The ruins on the hilltop above the village span a thousand years of history.
Read the complete Sebastia write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Sebastia comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tel Megiddo.
3. Tel Megiddo
From the top of Tel Megiddo, the whole of the Jezreel Valley spreads out below you, a green and gold checkerboard of fields stretching towards Mount Tabor and the hills of Galilee. You can see at once why so many armies fought here. The mound guarded the narrow pass where the ancient coastal road, the Via Maris, crossed from the Mediterranean plain into the valley, and anyone who held it controlled one of the great trade and military routes of the ancient world.
Read the complete Tel Megiddo write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 113 km into the recorded legs you reach Tel Megiddo. Next is back through Sebastia.
4. back through Sebastia
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sebastia write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Sebastia, late in the day. Next is White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme.
5. White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme to Sebastia
White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme → Sebastia is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sebastia to Tel Megiddo
Sebastia → Tel Megiddo is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tel Megiddo to back through Sebastia
Tel Megiddo → back through Sebastia is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sebastia to White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme
back through Sebastia → White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.